"Duplex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... easy to get Mr. Britt to come to the house, Mr. Harnden was not finding it easy to hold his prospective backer's attention. The patent project under consideration was what the inventor called "a duplex door," designed to keep kitchen odors from dining rooms. Mr. Harnden had a model of the apparatus. With his forefinger he kept tripping the doors, showing how a person's weight operated the contrivance, shutting the doors behind and simultaneously opening ...
— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day
... Newton stole, as described in the Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1782, p. 329. These laws are illustrated in the whizgig. There is the harsh astringent, attractive compression; the bitter compunction, repulsive expansion; and the stinging anguish, duplex motion. The author hints that he has written other works, to which he gives no clue. I have heard that Behmen was pillaged by Newton, and Swedenborg[583] by Laplace,[584] and Pythagoras by Copernicus,[585] and Epicurus by Dalton,[586] &c. I do not think this mention will revive Behmen; ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... DUPLEX COMMUNICATION.—A wireless telephone system with which it is possible to talk between both stations in either direction without the use of switches. This is known as ...
— The Radio Amateur's Hand Book • A. Frederick Collins
... sooner threw your line over than another one'd grab it—great, big, heavy fish, and they never gave us a minute's rest. I worked like a horse for about half a day and then I gave up. Told Brown I'd take a duplex car-puller along next time I tackled that kind of a job, and I went back ...
— Calumet "K" • Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
... see," said Fulkerson; and, with that strange duplex action of the human mind, he wished that it was his hair, and not her father's, that Miss Woodburn was poking apart with the corner of ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
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